Oklahoma Wheat Crop Promising Despite Higher National Yield
Oklahoma eyes a 47.95 million bushel wheat crop, up about 30 percent from 1923, aided by favorable weather. National figures show a modest 543 million bushels with lower acreage and stable quality. Corn and oats forecasts rise, barrow grain sorghums dip acreage 12 percent from last year.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Carl H. Robinson
United States
Oklahoma City Mills
U. S
Muskogee Suffers 36 Hour Water Cut After Pipe Break
A 24 inch water main serving Muskogee was ruptured by the collapse of a large cotton compress warehouse. The city will have no water for 36 hours with only a 12 hour reserve. hospitals may use water, others are cut off. The break was in the west wall near Hyde Park station. The pipe lies about four feet below ground.
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Muskogee
Oklo
Reserve
Hyde Park
Motorize Ada Veterans Convention Transport Corps Mobilized
The Citizens Motor Transportation Corps forms in Ada to haul peace time workers and veterans to and from events during Ada’s July pow wow. Claude E. McLean leads the mobile auto forces and Norman Howard post American Legion sponsors a carry a veteran campaign. Cars are pledged to meet trains and shuttle veterans to lodging after registration at the city baseball park.
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Citizens Motor Transportation Corps
Ada
Claude E. McLean
Norman Howard Post
American Legion
Ada McLean
Automobile Corps
Many Seek Retrial as Muir Hangs for Slaying
Walter Muir of New York was hanged at Valley Field Quebec for the September murder of Henri Leviolette after a bar room quarrel. Campaigns by Countess Richelieu and others failed. Muir claimed he fired to scare, writing a goodbye letter to his mother before execution.
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Montreal
Walter Muir
New York
Valley Field
Quebec
Henri Leviolette
Muir
Leviolette
Joseph Plant
Contess Richelieu
Countess Richelieu
Eleanor Douglas Muse
Baltimore
Canada
Juliette Thompson
Washington
Howard C. Dickinson
Secretary of State
Department of State
Stays Granted for Two Executed in Oklahoma Case
McAlester reports that Estelle Perkins and George Mullims received stays of execution from the state appeals court. Their August 29 date remains pending while Richard Birkes, condemned for the First State Bank killing, was also given a stay until his appeal is decided with a September 5 execution date set if denied.
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Richard Birkes
Birkes
Frank Pitts
First State Bank
Ketchum
Officer Pays Debt Made in France in 1918
Ceph Shoemake, Durant county superintendent, says soldiers will repay debts. He received a repayment of at least 55 dollars from Captain Paul N Streit of Camp Custer Michigan. Streit sent a letter of thanks noting the debt from 1918 at St Nazaire France was repaid after Shoemake.
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Streit
States
Shoemake
France
Decision Ends Long Legal Battle Over Coal Mine Dispute
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St Louis affirmed a district ruling for the United Mine Workers of America, ending a decade long lawsuit by Coronado Coal seeking damages for alleged 1914 striker violence in the Arkansas field. The decision follows a Supreme Court dictum and was written by Judge Kenyon with judges Sanborn and Earle concurring.
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ST. Louis
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
Coronado Coal Company
United Mine Workers of America
Arkansas
J. C. Pollock
United Sta Supreme Court
William 8. Kenyon
Er Walter Sanborn
Robert E
Silent Women Balk Inquiry In Robbery Case
Oklahoma City officers rely on two women to unravel a $2,000,000 Roundout Illinois train robbery. Dorothy Newton of Oklahoma City and Pearl Holliday of Tulsa are held as material witnesses. both refuse to name their husbands and have spoken little of the romance tied to the case.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Dorothy Newton
Pearl Holliday
Tulsa
Dorothy
Joe Newton
Pearl
Herbert Holliday
Willie Newton
Wellston
Willie
Chicago
Studebaker
Bill Eads
State Cotton Crop Will Have Record Yield This Season
Oklahoma forecasts 721240 bales of cotton if boll weevil remains inactive and grasshoppers are eradicated this month. Weather is favorable and ten-board committee led by Fred Wilmarth reports from county investigations. If grasshoppers persist, yield could drop significantly. boll weevil damage could halve the figure.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Cotton Growers Association
Fred Wilmarth
Residents Give Ford Family Warm North Beard Welcome
Rev. and Mrs. R. E. L. Ford received a surprise pounding Thursday afternoon when Baptist women and guests gathered at their North Beard and Seventh street home. Lemonade and refreshments followed a brief address by Mr. Ford, with praise for the kind spirit shown by the visitors.
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R. E. L. Ford
North Beard
Seventh Street
Ford
Mrs. Ford
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Hoxbar
The
A. P. Brown Co
Pontotoc County
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